Ishikawa Takuboku Poetry Monument (Morioka Castle Ruins Park (Iwate Park))

Kenji Miyazawa poem monument (inside Morioka High School)

``To all the students, don't you feel the clear, clean wind blowing from this dashing realm of your future?'' The Morioka Daiichi High School where this monument stands is Morioka Junior High School, where Kenji once studied. Taking a break from the stuffy old family where he was born and raised, living in a dormitory, and hanging out with friends of his own generation brought Kenji a great sense of freedom. While attending school, I walked in the nearby mountains and became familiar with many books. Takuboku Ishikawa is ten years my senior at Morioka Junior High School.

Morioka Tenmangu Shrine

The guardian dog of Morioka Tenmangu Shrine, which used to be part of Takuboku's walking course, is now enshrined on top of Takuboku's monument. It is said that this guardian dog appears in the novel ``Funeral Procession,'' and it has a face that says, ``Since I was born, I still don't know whether the world is in the west or the east.'' Takuboku said.

Old missionary hall

It was built in 1920 by the German Reformed Church to house the missionaries sent to Shimonohashi Church, and retains the atmosphere of a pure Western-style building from the Taisho era. You can't go inside, but there is a small park right next to it and there is a signboard about the origin of Osawa River, so please take a short break.